QAWE MBALU

QAWE MBALU
MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER
PORTFOLIO & CV 2015

QAWE MBALU
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Project management
• Project scoping and costing
2012 - 2014: University of Pretoria
Position: Assistant Lecturer
2008: Seed Creative (Freelance)
Position: Web Designer
Name: Qawekazi (Qawe) Mbalu
Date of Birth: January 3, 1985
Nationality: South African/Australian
Email: qawe.mbalu@gmail.com
Phone: +27 (0)72 495 552 8
Address: 244 Republic Road, Randpark,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
• Developing and managing work plans
and timelines
• Overseeing and managing project execution
and delivery
• Client and team liaison
Software
• Design: Adobe Creative Suite CC
• Video: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe
Key responsibilities:
• Lecturing Information Design and Multimedia
students in Instructional Design, Web & Interactive
Design, Typeface Design, Branding and Visual
Culture Studies.
• Providing software training in Digital Video (Adobe
(Adobe InDesign) and Typeface Design.
2009 - 2011: MU Student Union Ltd. (University
Key responsibilities:
• Assessing project viability and responding to briefs.
• Designing website information architecture
and sitemaps.
• Designing and developing HTML and Flash-based
websites and microsites.
2007: Mid-Comp International
Position: Graphic/Web Designer
Key responsibilities:
Current: MA Information Design
University of Pretoria
2011: Visual Culture Studies
University of Pretoria
2009: Digital Project Management Skills
Australian Interactive Media Industry
Association (AIMIA)
2007: Bachelor of Design (Multimedia)
Swinburne University of Technology
2005: Adv. Diploma Multimedia (Design)
Swinburne University of Technology
• Audio: Soundtrack Pro
Platforms
• CMS: Wordpress, Joomla, TextPattern.
• OS: Macintosh OSX and Windows.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Current: Freelance Creative
of Melbourne)
Position: Multimedia Designer
Key responsibilities:
• Designing publications and print collateral for
internal and external clients.
• Designing and managing websites, microsites and
e-marketing campaigns.
• Filming and editing event videos.
• Event photography
• Managing departmental image library
• Providing CMS support to clients.
• Designing interfaces for web-based applications.
• Designing software packaging.
• Developing and implementing creative
concepts for marketing campaigns.
• Maintaining and managing in-house websites.
2005-2007: Wooden Toy Magazine/Fad Experiment
Position: Multimedia Designer
Key responsibilities:
• Designing user interfaces.
• Slicing and appropriating artwork for web output.
SKILLS
Position: Multimedia Designer/Graphic Designer
Key responsibilities:
• Leading the design and creative direction of
2007 - 2009: Surfacemedia
Position: Interactive Producer/Designer
Key responsibilities:
• Developing Flash websites and animations.
• Maintaining and managing internal and external
client websites.
Design
• Web design (Interface design / HTML / CSS)
• Graphic design (Print, layout and CI design)
• Digital design (Flash design, development
and animation)
varied projects with a cross section of clients
in the media, publishing, entertainment and tourism/
hospitality sectors.
Completed projects include publication and editorial
design for street press publications Tourism Gazette,
• Producing creative concepts and designs for web
and print output.
• Creating storyboards, wireframes, prototypes and
functional specification documentation.
• Managing the development and delivery of online and
digital projects including liaising with clients, team
REFERENCES
Available on request.
UX/Interaction Design
• Functional specification documentation
(wireframes, prototypes, storyboarding and
City Life Arts and Education Today; creative direction
for Channel ED TV shows ‘Contact’ and ‘Corner Talks’;
branding and CI design for private SMMEs and start-ups.
members and third-party suppliers.
• Developing WC3 compliant websites
• Providing CMS training and support to clients.
site mapping)

STIMELA / DEMOKRAZY
The Membership Deals posters were designed as part of the
University of Melbourne’s student union membership drive in 2012.
The poster artwork was also run as print ads in a number of student
magazines and publications.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design

CRUZADOS SECURITY & PROTECTION
Corporate identity design for private security company, Cruzados
Security & Protection. The project included the design of Cruzados’
new logo and its application across corporate stationary and
marketing collateral.
Agency: Freelance
Project Role: Lead designer
• CI design
• Publication design
• Project management

UMSU STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
Booklet design for the University of Melbourne’s student body, UMSU.
The booklet was designed in a reversible 2-in-1 format with one side
containing information about the 2012 student representatives, and
the otherside a directory of the 2012 student clubs.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Publication design

UOM GRADUATIONS
The Graduation Day Guide was designed for the University of
Melbourne’s Graduations Department. The booklet was designed
for graduating students and attendants of the university’s
graduation ceremonies.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Publication design

THE WAY WE HEAL
Programme layout design for the nationally touring production of
Dr. Wally Serote’s play The Way We Heal. The cover/poster artwork
was supplied by the client.
Agency: Freelance
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Publication design

TOURISM GAZETTE
Identity and layout design for tourism publication, Tourism Gazette.
The publication design included the re-design of the paper’s arts and
culture inset, City Life Arts.
Agency: Freelance
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Publication design

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE:
STUDENT EXPERIENCE GUIDE
The Bachelor of Commerce Student Experience flyer was designed
for prospective students of the University of Melbourne’s Bachelor
of Commerce program. The booklet was designed as an A5-sized
brochure that folds out into an A3-sized poster.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design

LIVE UNIT
Poster and postcard designs for two of the LIVE Unit’s leadership
and community volunteer initiatives at the University of Melbourne.
The artwork for both the Community Volunteer Fair and the Duke of
Edinburgh Awards events/initiatives were printed as postcards and
large-scale posters.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Project management

FIRST FLOOR 393 /
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY
(1) Poster and flyer designs for the Red Bull Music Academy’s Blu &
Exile show in Melbourne.
(2) Poster and flyer designs for UK hip hop duo Rodney P and Skitz
Agency: Freelance
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design

CHANNEL ED: CORNER TALKS
Title sequence design for Channel ED’s township-based youth talk
show, Corner Talks.
Agency: Urban Brew
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Broadcast design (VFX & Colour Grading)

CHANNEL ED: CONTACT
Title sequence design for Channel ED’s documentary series, Contact
Agency: Urban Brew
Project Role: Lead designer
• Graphic design
• Colour grading

UNION HOUSE THEATRE
Microsite and e-invite design and development for the Union House
Theatre’s productions of Trans-Mute and Sweeney Todd.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer & developer
• Web design
• E-marketing design

PARENTING RESEARCH CENTRE
Website design for a number of programs offered by the Parenting
Research Centre (PRC), an Australian government supported a
research organisation.
Agency: Surfacemedia
Project Role: Producer & UX Designer
• UX design (information architecture, site-mapping and wireframes)
• Project management

TREK, CLIMB, SKI
User Experience Design for the website design and development of
adventure tour site, Trek, Climb, Ski.
Agency: Surfacemedia
Project Role: Producer & UX Designer
• UX design (information architecture, site-mapping
and wireframes)
• Project management

THE GRAD SHOP
Interface design and user experience design for the University of
Melbourne’s The Grad Shop e-commerce website.
Agency: MU Student Union / MU Design
Project Role: Lead designer
• Website design
• UX design (information architecture, site-mapping
and wireframes)

WOODEN TOY MAGAZINE
Flash design and development for skate culture publication Wooden
Toy’s first website.
Agency: Wooden Toy/FAD Experiment
Project Role: Lead developer
• Website design
• Flash development
• Animation

PAGEUP PEOPLE
Electronic greeting card designed for recruitment company, PageUp
People’s 10th year anniversary. The greeting card was designed for
email distribution to clients, employees and stakeholders.
Agency: Surfacemedia
Project Role: Lead designer
• Interface design
• Flash development
• Animation

QAWE MBALU
MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER
QAWE.MBALU@GMAIL.COM